August 17, 2017

(Sun Times Wire) A 16 year old boy was among two people killed and eight others wounded in shootings in about 13 hours Wednesday across Chicago. The day’s latest fatal shooting happened at 4:34 p.m. in the Jeffery Manor neighborhood on the Far South Side. Kejuan Thomas, 16, was playing basketball in the 9700 block…

August 16, 2017

(Sun Times Wire) A man was killed and seven other people were wounded in shootings in less than 12 hours Tuesday on Chicago’s South and West sides. The fatal shooting happened about 2:25 p.m. in the Southwest Side Ashburn neighborhood. A 23-year-old man was standing outside in the 7800 block of South Homan when a…

August 15, 2017

(Sun Times Wire) Two men were killed and at least nine other people were wounded in shootings Monday on the city’s South and West sides. The day’s latest fatal shooting happened about 10 a.m. in the South Shore neighborhood. Rakeem Simmons, 25, was found by officers responding to a call of a person shot in…

August 15, 2017

(WGN) A 67 year old woman was shot while driving in the Brighton Park neighborhood, Monday. The woman was driving her car on the 4000 block of south Western when gang members in a dark colored SUV opened fire on rival gang members in a light colored SUV. The victim was driving by when she…

August 15, 2017

(WLS) A man was shot in the chest Monday evening in the parking lot of a Walgreens in Schaumburg, police said. The victim is in his late 30s to early 40s, said Christy Lindhurst, of the Schaumburg Police Department. He was transported to Lutheran General Hospital in serious condition. The shooting occurred at about 5:15…

August 14, 2017

(Fox 32) Nine people were killed and at least 30 others were wounded in shootings across Chicago between Friday night and Monday morning. The weekend’s latest fatal shooting happened about 12:10 a.m. Monday in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood on the Southwest Side. A 26-year-old man was standing next to a car in the 3000 block…

August 14, 2017

(Chicago Tribune) Three men were shot and killed during an auto racing event on Sunday, a Wisconsin sheriff said. Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth said authorities responded to the Great Lakes Dragaway in Union Grove around 7 p.m. after receiving reports about shots being fired. The three men were shot by another man at point-blank…

August 13, 2017

(NBC 5) Three people were shot and killed in a suspected self-defense case in Chicago’s East Side neighborhood on Sunday evening, police said. Police confirmed that two men and one woman were shot and killed in the 10200 block of S. Ewing. All three victims sustained multiple gunshot wounds, and all three were pronounced dead…

August 13, 2017

(WLS) Two men were shot and killed outside a church in Chicago’s South Austin neighborhood Sunday morning, police said. The shooting happened in the 200-block of South Laramie Avenue around 11:19 a.m. Two men approached on foot from the front of the church and fired shots at the two victims, police said. A 46-year-old man…

August 13, 2017

(Chicago Tribune) At least 16 people were shot, two fatally, across the city in separate attacks from Saturday to Sunday. The two fatal shootings took place within 30 minutes in different parts of the city. In the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side, a 27-year-old woman was fatally shot about 12:25 a.m.…

August 13, 2017

(WLS) A 27-year-old woman who recently moved to Chicago to attend medical school was held at gunpoint, beaten and carjacked. The attack occurred early Saturday at 25th Street and King Drive near the Prairie Shores Apartment buildings a few blocks south. The woman told ABC7 that she moved last month from New York last month…

August 12, 2017

(Chicago Tribune) A 36 year old man was sprawled on the sidewalk near an intersection in the Homan Square neighborhood late Friday as firefighters tended to his gunshot wound. Chicago police officers and women gathered around the man. He shook his head at his teenage daughter as paramedics wheeled him into an ambulance. The daughter…

August 12, 2017

(WGN) An 86 year old man is dead in what appears to be a homicide in the Canaryville neighborhood. Officers responded to the 4100 block of south Wallace on Thursday at approximately 4:04 p.m. where the 86 year-old Donald McNamara was discovered bleeding from a puncture wound in the back of his head. McNamara was…

August 12, 2017

The Chicago Rippers were a gang of 4 serial killers, Robin Gecht, Andrew Kokoraleis, his brother Thomas and Edward Spreitzer. The strange part is Robin Gecht worked for John Wayne Gacy for a period of time just before Gacy was caught and then he went on to murder 18 women in parti...

The Chicago Rippers were a gang of 4 serial killers, Robin Gecht, Andrew Kokoraleis, his brother Thomas and Edward Spreitzer. The strange part is Robin Gecht worked for John Wayne Gacy for a period of time just before Gacy was caught and then he went on to murder 18 women in particularly brutal fashion during 1981 and 1982. They practiced Satanism and Gecht made souvenirs of breasts and other body parts that he kept in a box. They also cannibalized parts of the bodies. Gecht was never convicted of murder, only attempted murder for which he received 120 years. Spreitzer and Andrew Kokoraleis were given the death penalty and Thomas Kokoraleis life. Andrew Kokoraleis was executed in 1999. I believe he was the last man to be executed in the state of Illinois. Spreitzer’s death sentence was commuted to Life and Thomas Kokoraleis is scheduled to be released in 2017.How any state could release this guy is ridiculous. But that’s the gift the state gave him for being the first to confess to 18 brutal torture-murders and mutilations. Robin Gecht still maintains his innocence. Of course he does.

August 12, 2017

A member of the sadistic Ripper Crew, believed to be responsible for the cult-like mutilation sex slayings of as many as 20 women during the early 1980s, is scheduled to be paroled next month. Ripper Crew Documentary But, in an effort to thwart his release, prosecutors are reviewing whether Thomas Kokoraleis fits the legal standard…

August 11, 2017

(dna Info) Bloodied man used Facebook Live to broadcast a standoff between himself and a group of people during an apparent attack in Austin.
The incident happened Tuesday afternoon in the 5200 block of West Adams Street and involved a screwdriver, officials said. Two women and...

(dna Info) Bloodied man used Facebook Live to broadcast a standoff between himself and a group of people during an apparent attack in Austin.

The incident happened Tuesday afternoon in the 5200 block of West Adams Street and involved a screwdriver, officials said. Two women and a man were injured in the incident, said Larry Merritt, a Chicago Fire Department spokesman.

A man streamed the incident and its aftermath in four videos that have quickly spread on Facebook. They have been watched more than 377,000 times.

The first video, which has been shared more than 4,200 times on Facebook, shows a bloodied man carrying something — others in the video call it a knife — while threatening people. The man shows his blood-covered chest and arms on Facebook Live and uses gang slogans and signs in the video.

Other people threaten the man with poles and the man says, “I will come back with 20 n—–. You guys better not be here because I’m a start shooting n——.”

Eventually police arrive and the man records officers as they speak to witnesses. People in the video say the man stabbed two or three women.

In another video, the man points his camera at his face, revealing blood dripping from his nose and chin down to his chest.

The fourth video shows the man in what appears to be a hospital, his neck in a brace, bandages in his nose and cuts along his chest.

Two people were hospitalized at Mount Sinai and Stroger hospitals and their injuries did not appear be to life-threatening, Merritt said.

Chicago Police could not immediately answer questions about the incident Friday.

August 10, 2017

(Fox 32) A suspected car thief who was the driver in a hit-and-run in the south suburbs was fatally shot by police Thursday morning in northwest Indiana after a chase that began in Illinois and crossed the state line three times. Mark P. Coffey, 33, was shot just after 5:30 a.m. in the 8000 block…

August 10, 2017

(WLS) A man was shot and killed early Thursday morning by someone trying to take his car on Chicago’s Northwest Side. Jesus De La O-Jimenez, 28, was dropping off a female acquaintance around 2:05 a.m. near North Greenview Avenue and West Division Street in the city’s Noble Square neighborhood, when police said another man got…

August 10, 2017

(WGN) A 33-year-old man has been charged with firing shots at police officers during a car chase on Sunday morning in Chicago’s Montclare neighborhood. Arthuro Martinez is now being held in Cook County Jail on $250,000 bond. Just before midnight Sunday, police say they saw Martinez driving recklessly in a silver Toyota near Grand and…

August 10, 2017

(Sun Times Wire) Gregory “Bowlegs” Chester “embraced the murder and mayhem” wreaked over a decade by the Hobos street gang. He “contributed to the carnage,” U.S. District Judge John J. Tharp said. And he cannot wash his hands of the blood spilled amid the gang’s reign of terror in Chicago. Still, the judge stopped short…

August 10, 2017

(Chicago Tribune) Two days before a task force that included Chicago police and federal drug agents moved to make arrests in a yearlong drug investigation, a wiretap picked up a stunning disclosure during a phone call to a target of the probe. “We gotta homie that works on the task force,” the caller told the…

August 10, 2017

(Sun Times Wire) Three people were killed and five others were wounded in shootings Wednesday across Chicago. The day’s latest fatal shooting happened about 8:30 p.m. in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood on the Southwest Side. Two men were standing on the sidewalk in the 6000 block South Maplewood when someone in a dark SUV drove…

August 9, 2017

(Sun Times Wire) A man was killed and at least 10 other people were wounded in shootings Tuesday across Chicago. Alfred Mitchell Jr., 28, was gunned down and six others were wounded in a single mass shooting incident at 10:37 p.m. in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side. The victims were standing on the…

August 9, 2017

(WLS) Seven people were shot, one of them fatally, in a mass shooting Tuesday night on Chicago’s South Side, two blocks from Chicago police headquarters. Five of the wounded were women. Gunfire broke out just after 10:30 p.m. in the first block of East 37th Street in the city’s Bronzeville neighborhood. Investigators said there was…

August 8, 2017

Five people were wounded in separate shootings Monday across Chicago. The day’s latest incident happened about 8 p.m. in the West Garfield Park neighborhood. A 23-year-old man was shot in the leg in the 4700 block of West Lake Street, according to Chicago Police. He took himself to Stroger Hospital, where his condition stabilized. Details…

August 8, 2017

Maggio News Video A 14-year-old boy gunned down on the steps of a Pilsen home was among three people killed and 28 others wounded in shootings in Chicago over the weekend, according to authorities.
The violence brought the number of people shot in the city this year to at lea...

Maggio News Video A 14-year-old boy gunned down on the steps of a Pilsen home was among three people killed and 28 others wounded in shootings in Chicago over the weekend, according to authorities.

The violence brought the number of people shot in the city this year to at least 2,256, according to data kept by the Tribune. There have been at least 415 homicides.

The three homicides over the weekend happened between Saturday night and Sunday morning.

Fourteen-year-old Damien Santoyo was fatally shot about 2:35 a.m. Sunday outside of a home in the 1700 block of South Newberry Avenue on the Near Southwest Side. People inside a passing car yelled gang slogans and someone opened fire, hitting Damien in the head.

“I’m so sorry,” his mother cried out from the same wooden steps where he was killed. “I wasn’t there for you. Oh, my baby. I’m so sorry. Get up, please.”

Early Sunday, a 33-year-old man was fatally shot by a woman in a domestic altercation in the Clearing neighborhood on the Southwest Side, police said. Damien Hernandez was shot three times by a 30-year-old woman just before 5:20 a.m. in the 6900 block of West 65th Street. He was pronounced dead on the scene.

Hernandez lived on the block where he was killed, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

The woman is in custody with charges pending.

About 10:40 p.m. Saturday, a 39-year-old man was fatally shot while in a car near Sherwood Park in the Englewood neighborhood. Officers found Marvin Hines after he crashed into the fence of a home. He lived in the 600 block of West 61st Street, according to the medical examiner’s office.

On Sunday, two men were shot while riding in a car on the Near North Side about 7:55 p.m., police said. The shooting in the 1000 block of North Clark Street critically injured a 33-year-old man. Ten people were wounded in separate attacks within 9 hours from Friday afternoon to Saturday morning. A shooting in the 5100 block of South Hoyne Avenue in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side critically injured a 31-year-old man riding in a vehicle.

August 6, 2017

(Chicago Tribune) A 14 year old boy who was fatally shot in Pilsen was among 14 people hit by gunfire within seven hours from late Saturday to early Sunday. Since an 11 a.m. shooting, Chicago had gone about 11 hours without a shooting Saturday when the 7-hour period began about 10:20 p.m. In total, three…

August 6, 2017

(Sun Times Wire) The Chicago Police officer had put her gun on the kitchen counter for only a second. But that was just long enough for a fellow cop, probationary Officer Ruby Falcon, to snatch it and hold it to her head. Hours earlier, there had been few signs that the night of drinking and…

August 5, 2017

(Chicago Tribune) Eleven people were wounded, including two women, in separate attacks across the city within 18 hours from Friday afternoon to early Saturday. About 5:45 a.m. Saturday, a 31-year-old man was shot in the neck while he was in the 2500 block of West 50th Street in the Gage Park neighborhood, police said. He…

August 4, 2017

(Maggio News) On Thursday, 1 person was shot and killed and 7 others were wounded in shootings across the city. Another was stabbed and wounded during a robbery. The first shooting took place on the 6400 block of south Lowe at 11:37pm. 2 men were standing on the sidewalk when an occupant in sedan fired…

August 4, 2017

(WLS) Chicago police said a 46-year-old man was shot and killed in the city’s Gage Park neighborhood Thursday afternoon. Police said Abel Melesio was outside in the 5600-block of South Richmond Street around 11:30 a.m. when a black Cadillac SUV pulled up and someone inside opened fire. Melesio was struck in the chest and rushed…

August 4, 2017

(WGN) 31 year old Ryan C. Yarber has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of two women in Crystal Lake, police said. Police went to a home in the 100 block of Marian Parkway shortly after 8 p.m. Thursday night after receiving a call about a woman with a…

August 4, 2017

A Chicago man was shot while his pregnant girlfriend sat next to him in a pickup truck Thursday evening in southwest suburban Burbank. The 30-year-old and his 23-year-old girlfriend, also from Chicago, were driving west on 79th Street near Mason Avenue in a 2004 Ford Ranger about 8 p.m. when people in a black Cadillac…

August 4, 2017

(Maggio News) Wednesday in Chicago was relatively calm only two people were shot and wounded. The first shooting happened at 3:23am on the 5400 block of west North Avenue. A male Hispanic, 24, was in a vehicle when he heard shots and felt pain. Victim was self-transported to Community First and was transferred to Il…

August 2, 2017

(Sun Times Wire) A 17 year old boy suffered a gunshot wound to the left side and a 66 year old man was shot in the upper right side, police said. They were both taken to Mount Sinai Hospital. A 28 year old man was shot in the abdomen, while a 31 year old man…

August 2, 2017

(WLS) Four people were wounded in shooting Tuesday night in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the West Side. All four were on the porch of a home about 8:25 p.m. in the 800 block of North Monticello when someone came up to them and opened fire, Chicago Police said. A 66-year-old man was shot in…

August 2, 2017

(Sun Times Wire) Two men were killed and at least nine other people were wounded in shootings Monday across Chicago. The most recent deaths were the latest of 378 people fatally shot in the city this year, according to data maintained by the Chicago Sun-Times. In all, more than 2,165 people have been shot since…

July 31, 2017

(Sun Times Wire) A 4 year old boy and an 89-year-old man were among 35 people shot across the cityfrom Friday evening to Monday morning, a period that also saw four homicides. The most recent deaths were the latest of 377 people fatally shot in the city this year, according to data maintained by the…

July 31, 2017

(Chicago Tribune) A West Garfield Park man who was found on a Lakeview CTA platform with a loaded AK-47 rifle strapped to his chest tried to conceal the weapon by wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, authorities said Sunday. Jordan Watkins, 29, was arrested Saturday morning and ordered held on $150,000 bond Sunday by Judge Maria…